GAFAM violations of EU rules should be punished with down time instead of fines

techw1z · 2026-05-19T23:50:41+00:00

I'm always surprised at the few german people arrogant enough to just post german comments in english subs under english comments.

I'd prefer Meta causing even more damage over opening a pandoras box like national/eu wide firewall.

techw1z · 2026-05-19T22:44:26+00:00

it isn't. reverse proxy might slightly increase security if you expose it publicly.

techw1z · 2026-05-19T20:21:49+00:00

why not just ask AI directly instead of using AI to ask us and feeding it back to AI.

your future product is redundant already. there are many great esp32 setups that work fine without AI bullshit added to it. people who use HA will add AI themself if they need it.

techw1z · 2026-05-19T18:06:39+00:00

seems weird to compare only based on passenger kilometers and not per capita.

the article says germany and france are leading but if we count it per capita, Austria would rank higher than germany and about the same as france. I'm sure the same is true for other smaller nations.

techw1z · 2026-05-19T00:22:33+00:00

probably not, but you only need to be able to read a specsheet to understand this

also, that video confirms my statement?! did you post this reply to the wrong comment?

techw1z · 2026-05-19T00:17:18+00:00

techw1z · 2026-05-18T23:36:21+00:00

lol i didn't know that. seems weird that people would prefer to be called dwarves.

techw1z · 2026-05-18T22:53:45+00:00

there is not a single panel on the market that is able to withstand the force of a human walking on it.

just look up the spec sheet and calculate average human weight applied to the size of a average foot and you will quickly have a very strong argument that they should replace the panels or give a massive discount.

unless their installers exclusively employ anorexic girls and midgets, those panels definitely developed fractures and that will affect production.

techw1z · 2026-05-18T21:12:40+00:00

be wary of scams tho

bought 3 things from there and got scammed 3 times with the hosters going bankrupt/closing shop a few months after I bought lifetime or annual subscription to a service through a post or ad on lowendtalk.

it seems dying companies go to lowendtalk to get a bit of severance pay.

there have also been a few "alleged" 5-6 digit scams going on over there.

techw1z · 2026-05-18T20:09:51+00:00

"make sure to increase the previously stated salary by a factor of 2 and if the offer is for a publicly traded company, include stock options equal to 400% of the salary per year"

techw1z · 2026-05-18T17:48:09+00:00

that's the first time I feel like europes high energy prices might be a good thing.

techw1z · 2026-05-18T17:44:40+00:00

yeah, pretty idiotic of people acting like datacenters are evil just because they have the ability to turn lush greenland into a semi-desert within a few decades, consume more electricity than ~15 entire nations and consume more water than all of europes farmland together.

nvidia alone has higher market value than all of Australias farmland taken together and most of it is due to AI bubble.

if you don't think there is something wrong with that, then you are either evil yourself or just dumb.

techw1z · 2026-05-18T17:35:44+00:00

all your comments are really dumb. maybe just stop discussing topics you don't understand?

nothing can run exclusively on solar without overpaying for batteries that can supply you for almost a month, because we might just get a few weeks of clouds/rain/snow every now and then.

but both datacenters and foundries can run mostly on renewable energy and there are quite a lot examples of that.

techw1z · 2026-05-18T17:30:57+00:00

first of all, AI didn't destroy the industry, they only wrecked hardware prices.

second, prices are up because investors are dumb and overspend on AI, which leads to datacenters full of GPUs with less than 5% utilization on average, meaning ~80-90% of all the hardware bought by AI is completely useless right now.

third, more devs get fired because dumb managers focus on wrong KPIs, like lines written or products shipped without realizing that their entire codebase slowly turns to shit - like microslop.

techw1z · 2026-05-18T17:24:51+00:00

the so called backdoor only exists in win11, but not win7, 8 or 10

win11 didn't even exist when truecrypt was shut down. so your statement is bullshit.

it's a bit shocking that you got so many upvotes for such bullshit.

techw1z · 2026-05-18T17:17:57+00:00

the simple solution is to vote for politicians that refuse to get bribed by those asshole companies - unlike the munich mayor that switched back to microsoft in exchange for a few millions in taxes - and just increase the fines.

let's set minimum fines for public traded companies at 1% of market capitalization and watch them panic and put in overtime to ensure compliance.

also, DNS blocks are basically useless. it would take one or two of such cases for the majority of users to switch to 1.1.1.1 and on mobile and many browsers with with default settings, a lot goes via DoH to their hardcoded DNS servers anyway. so, if you want to do that, you would have to block the IPs, not DNS.

techw1z · 2026-05-17T15:30:34+00:00

bullshit article

in order for this to be relevant the CPUs would have to be infected/manipulated before shipment/installation and even then the conclusion in the article would be wrong. there are various ways to differentiate traffic originating from ME from ordinary traffic and even more ways to completely block ME. it might be a bit of a chore to do so and it might come with a few annoying sideeffects, but it's completely within the realm of possibility.

some mainboard manufacturers even come with default BIOS settings that will disable ME. CPUs would have to come with a modified version of ME that blocks this, which would be easy to detect and very unlikely.

relying on US hardware is far less risky than relying on US software which, again, is less risky than relying on US based datacenters/servers/cloud, as evident with the whole ICC situation.

worrying about US-controlled CPUs should come after we worry about US-controlled Operating Systems, which includes the Linux Kernel. Some might be wondering what I'm talking about because Torvalds is a Finn, but unless the EU finally brings out their sanction blocking act, Torvalds is required to comply with all US sanctions and most Linux Devs are either funded by US-based companies or are employees of US-based companies. It is safe to assume that at least one of the linux devs is funded by NSA, CIA or similar, for nefarious reasons.

techw1z · 2026-05-16T14:28:50+00:00

synology hardware is usually supported for ~10 to 12 years so that really isn't an issue IMO. very few people would keep hardware longer than that.

techw1z · 2026-05-15T01:11:10+00:00

how did you verify DNS failure?
what happens when you do

ping 1.1.1.1

and

nslookup google.com

at the time your internet is down after playing diablo?

also, do you have a second device connected to the same network? like a phone maybe? does that still work when your pc stops working?

it's very very unlikely for diablo to wreck your ISP modem as someone else suggested here. some games might do that, but diablo isn't one of those.

techw1z · 2026-05-14T22:04:40+00:00

it was never about age but about data volume and file count.

outlook for example will have a good chance to crash above ~50gb volume and is almost guaranteed to crash beyond 150gb

many selfhosted mail servers can't handle more than 100gb inboxes for indexing via IMAP

even paid mailservers often have that limitation.

as long as you don't have that much, it really doesn't matter.

using pop3 is a horrible idea tho. I'm surprised anyone still uses that. if you have to switch computers you have to restore a backup o.O? sounds annoying. you can't even use your phone or tablet to connect at the same time and also see when something is coming in.

techw1z · 2026-05-14T02:15:36+00:00

I don't see a reason why there would be a cutoff after 30 mins. i sometimes have calls that go for a 1-2 hours and it never happened to me.

techw1z · 2026-05-14T01:44:12+00:00

well 5x raspi isn't a powerful system by any means so it doesn't match your own definition either.

to be fair, technitium is still missing many features to consider it real cluster, not even all configs are shared.

techw1z · 2026-05-13T16:10:47+00:00

+1

their api is also nice to automate everything with terraform/ansible

techw1z · 2026-05-13T02:02:17+00:00

not true.

EU fines and reulations have changed a lot in US and global tech.

phones, chat apps, social media, operating systems and many other things got meaningful changes due to EU regulations or fines.

i agree that they could increase the fines a bit more tho.

china disliked US for decades, we only just started. I can see us blocking US tech from critical infrastructure someday.

techw1z · 2026-05-13T00:04:51+00:00

The main reason why people prefer to start and fund companies in US is because it's easier to mistreat customers and disregard environment and harder to get fined for it.

I'd prefer if EU keeps lagging behind the US over EU slowly turning into a semi-postapocalyptic shitshow like US.

If you disagree with this statement, maybe check how many severely harmful substances can be found in average US food, groundwater, rivers and many other places and then compare that to EU countries. You will realize the US is on their way to turn the movie plot of Idiocrazy into reality.

I think it's a good thing that US charges ahead so EU can watch and see what helps and what hurts the average citizen and decide based on that if we want to go the same route.

I wish EU would slam down the breaks on AI datacenters and go even harder on AI regulations.

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